The Writers’ Trust has announced the three writers who will spend two months each in Dawson City, Yukon, at Pierre Berton’s childhood home for the 2023 Berton House Writers’ Residency Program.

Residents receive a stipend for expenses and travel to and from Dawson City is arranged and paid for by the Writers’ Trust. This year’s residents were selected by authors Carleigh Baker and Greg Bechtel, and Dawson City filmmaker Lulu Keating.

Ottawa-based writer, storyteller, and arts educator Maria Saba will be the winter resident.

Toronto-based spoken word performer, musician, and playwright Charlie Petch will be the summer resident.

Kingsville, Ontario-based writer Gord Grisenthwaite, a member of the Lytton First Nation, will be the fall resident.

The Writers’ Trust announced a relaunch of the program last year after pausing for COVID-19 and then for renovations to the house and property to improve safety, accessibility, and comfort. The Writers’ Trust also committed to bring Indigenous writers to Berton House in the fall to honour the traditional storytelling time of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, on whose traditional territory the house is located. Willow Cree writer, editor, and journalist Paul Seesequasis spent two months in Berton House last fall and was the only resident in 2022.